GEORGE JULIUS ENGELMANN

Background

George Julius Engelmann was born in St. Louis, Mo. His father, George Engelmann, a native of Frankfurt-am-Main, was a botanist of international reputation as well as an accomplished physician. He came to America in 1832, settled in St. Louis for practise, and in 1840 returned to Germany to marry Dorothea Horstmann of Bacharach-am-Rhein.

Education

The son received his education from his mother until 1856, when for two years he received instruction in various European cities, where his father was engaged in botanical research.

Returning to St. Louis with his parents in 1858, he entered Washington University where he was graduated in 1867.

His medical education was received abroad, at the University of Berlin (1867 - 69), at Tubingen (1869 - 70), and again at Berlin where he received the degree of M. D. in 1871.

Following graduation he pursued postgraduate study in gynecology and pathology in Vienna where the university gave him the degree of Master in Obstetrics in 1872.

Career

After a winter spent in the clinics of Paris and London, Engelmann returned to St. Louis in the spring of 1873. He was given the position of lecturer on pathologic anatomy in the St. Louis Medical College and shortly afterward organized the St. Louis School for Midwives, and the Maternity Hospital. He was engaged in general practise until 1878, when he suffered from a nearly fatal sepsis. Following his recovery he limited his practise to the diseases of women. He moved to Boston in 1895 and died in that city in 1903. Engelmann was a keen participant in all medical society affairs. His chief interests were, however, the local and national societies of gynecology and obstetrics. He was a member and one time president of the American Gynecological Society, of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Society, and honorary president of the International Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics. He also held membership in a number of foreign medical societies. He was married twice.

Achievements

• For years he was professor of diseases of women and operative midwifery at the Missouri Medical College and at the St. Louis Post-Graduate School of Medicine. He was an original investigator along the lines of his specialty.

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Membership

He was a member and one time president of the American Gynecological Society, of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Society, and honorary president of the International Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics. He also held membership in a number of foreign medical societies. For years he was professor of diseases of women and operative midwifery at the Missouri Medical College and at the St. Louis Post-Graduate School of Medicine.

Personality

He was genial, a good talker, with a gift for deep and lasting friendships. Physically he was tall and powerfully built. He had a round ruddy face, large dark expressive eyes, and a dimpled chin. In later life he was quite bald.

Interests

• Archaeology was Engelmann’s diversion. He made extensive researches of the Indian mounds of southeastern Missouri, and accumulated a private museum of flints and pottery. This collection was later given to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology at Cambridge, Mass. He donated his father’s botanical library and herbarium of one hundred thousand specimens to the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Connections

His first wife was Emily Engelmann, whom he married in 1879 and who died after a long illness in 1890. In 1893 he married Mrs. Loula Clark.

Father:

George Engelmann

Mother:

Dorothea Horstmann

2nd wife:

Loula Clark

First wife:

Emily Engelmann